Football Medicine in association with FIFA MSc

University of Bath

Developed in partnership with FIFA, this specialist master's course equips qualified doctors with the skills to conduct clinical practice in football settings.This highly flexible academic and clinical master's degree develops your sport and exercise medicine expertise, with a focus on football.Through a combination of Bath’s clinical expertise and FIFA’s industry insights, you’ll learn advanced football medicine techniques. This will help to enhance your sport-specific or portfolio medical career.During your studies, you’ll gain the skills needed to improve the preparation, development, and medical management of recreational or elite players and deepen your clinical knowledge of musculoskeletal injuries, to allow you to better assess, treat, and advise the patients in your practice.You’ll also develop your:clinical knowledge of the aftercare of injuries and rehabilitationability to provide safe and effective pitch-side emergency careexpertise in injury prevention in footballawareness of the signs of mental health issues in sport and the ability to provide confidential supportunderstanding of the ethical and medicolegal issues of working in footballThis course will also provide you with a recognised qualification for indemnity insurance - many team doctor jobs will require this type of qualification.Graduate prospectsBy the end of your studies, you will be qualified to work with footballers and/or teams from grassroots to elite levels in a variety of football medicine roles (such as team doctor).Throughout the course, you’ll become better equipped to assess, treat, and advise patients in relation to musculoskeletal injuries, and to advise patients about the health benefits of exercise more generally.